Dec 20th 2020, 02:27 PM
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Jul 2019 Wautoma WI Cervid: Elk, Whitetail and Fallow |
My deer and elk love carrots, parsnips, apples, the horse apple treats both by purina and sprout. My elk will eat pears & celery but my deer wont touch either of them. I smear peanut butter on trees in the pens. They love licking that gone. I've done peanuts & sunflower seeds. However what goes over like its the best in the world and even preferred over corn is raw soybeans. They absolutely LOVE soybeans. My elk enjoyed it in early summer but for the most part ignore it and love the corn more. I don't do much corn in general trying to avoid gut problems from it.
But if you can get from a farmer after harvest and bag the soybeans they will stomp over each other for it.
I toss scoops out, I don't normally leave in piles. I find they like to "graze" for it and that way no one can lord over a pile and they have to look for it like they would have to look for food if they were wild.
Fresh greens, branches with leaves in late spring and over the summer I do for them since in winter its not possible to do that up here.
Watermelon in the summer, pumpkins & squash in the fall.
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